Pralhad Joshi demands apology from DKS over 'cooker blast' remark

Congress is creating hurdles in our efforts to isolate Pakistan, Pralhad Joshi said

Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi has demanded an apology from KPCC president D K Shivakumar for trying to mislead the people on the Mangaluru cooker blast by calling it a minor incident.

"The terror outfit ISIS itself has claimed responsibility for the cooker blast. Will you (D K Shivakumar) support ISIS or Taliban? Will you tender a public apology?. Two months back, Shivakumar had termed the cooker blast a minor accident and that the BJP was using it to divert public attention," Joshi said addressing a district-level convention of beneficiaries of various central and state programmes.

Taking a dig at the appeasement politics of the Congress and its allies, Joshi said, "The Union government is trying to corner Pakistan over its state-sponsored terrorism. We are striving for the inclusion of Pakistan in the grey list. But Congress is creating hurdles in our efforts to isolate Pakistan. Its leader Rahul Gandhi delivers a lecture at Cambridge University against India's interests and now Shivakumar calls a terror act a minor incident," the Union minister charged.